Completely off topic

I was working on the blog late last night when the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson came on the TV. If you have about 9 minutes, please listen to his monologue. It starts out pretty slow, but funny, and ends with a bang.

At the end of the show he spent another 5 3/4 minutes on a follow up.

Ferguson recently became a citizen. With humor, he made more sense, and spoke more for me, about the way we elect our president, than any news person or politician has had the courage to say.

Now I'll go back to telling you about Greene View Springs.

Overdue barn pictures

I was reminded a few days ago that I hadn't yet posted a picture of the barn after we painted it. We just got back from a CASA meeting at the courthouse and it was getting dark, but I took these anyway. Otherwise I'd probably forget them for a few more days.

 
North side                                                 West side

The cool hex sign was a gift from my sister Judy. Looks pretty nice, eh?

You don't see the corners because I still have to buy, paint and install them plus trim around the windows.

The trap is still working

Our cat Stubby sure likes fish skin. I never thought we'd catch anything during the day.

Autumn Olive

Here's another of the invasive species found at Greene View Springs. Some people call this Russian Olive, but that is a different variety. You can read more about the two on a page from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and another from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources prepared by the state's Invasive Plant Species Assessment Working Group.

Today I cut down the last of these that have been found to date. This picture shows one of them after pruning all the branches off. There is nothing left to show at all now because they have been sawed off to the ground. The two links above show Autumn Olives still standing.